Tribes join Pakistan's campaign to root out bin Laden By Peter Foster, South Asia Correspondent (Filed: 08/03/2004) The tribes of Pakistan's lawless border areas agreed yesterday to assist a hunt for Taliban and al-Qa'eda militants being conducted along the rugged Afghan-Pakistani border. The decision to co-operate with US-backed Pakistani government troops in the region will give further impetus to the hunt for Osama bin Laden, which has intensified since January. At a jirga, or tribal council, attended by 10,000 tribesmen in Wana, about 190 miles south-west of the Pakistani capital, Islamabad, elders agreed yesterday to to set up militia bands...